Hezbollah chief meets top Palestinian leaders

People carry the coffin of Hezbollah member Haydar Ayad, who was killed in southern Lebanon amidst tension between Israel and Hezbollah, during his funeral, in Babliyeh Lebanon, October 24, 2023. (Reuters)

This handout picture provided by the media office of the Hezbollah Lebanese Shiite movement on October 25, 2023, shows the group's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah (R) meeting with with the Palestinian secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad movement Ziad Nakhale (2nd-L) and the Hamas movement's deputy chief of political affairs Saleh al-Arouri (L) at an undisclosed location in Lebanon. (AFP)

BEIRUT: The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah met with top leaders of the Palestinian militant factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to a report by Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV, saying they had assessed what their alliance must do to “achieve a real victory for the resistance” in Gaza.
The meeting grouped Hezbollah’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, with Hamas deputy chief Saleh Al-Arouri, and Islamic Jihad chief Ziad Al-Nakhala, Al-Manar reported.
“The meeting ... assessed the positions taken internationally and what the Axis of Resistance must do,” a headline on Al-Manar said, referring to an alliance of Iran, Palestinian militant groups, Syria, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other factions.

Nasrallah and the Palestinian militant leaders “agreed to keep coordinating and daily following up on developments,” the statement added.
Hezbollah and Hamas have long been part of a "joint operations room" with the Quds Force -- the foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards -- a source close to Hezbollah previously told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The meeting also touched upon the cross-border fire on the Lebanon-Israel border, the statement said.

 Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, left, chats with Khaled Mashaal, in south of Beirut, Lebanon, March 27, 2004. (AP)